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2:53pm

Folk Music & Beyond 6/16

Hawaiian slack key guitarist Patrick Landeza returns to the KALW studios this Saturday for a live performance. He'll talk about his upcoming appearance at the Freight in Berkeley at the end of this month with the Legends of Waikiki, three of Hawaii's most iconic traditional singers. Listen anytime this week via KALW's Local Music Player.

2:17pm

Arts & Culture

It’s not surprising to find female singers today who “do it all.” They write and sing their own music, play an instrument, and maybe even dance. And in a growing number of cases they also run businesses. But this wasn’t the norm back in 1957, when singer Barbara Dane released her first album.

4:19pm

Arts & Culture

In New York, a new crop of 30-something musicians, whose parents were born elsewhere, are mixing Latin, Balkan, or South Asian music with jazz. One of the best is guitarist Rez Abbasi.

Abbassi was born in Karachi Pakistan but grew up in Southern California. As a youngster he was more enamored of rock than ragas. While South Asian sounds wafted throughout his home, he tried not to pay attention.

6:26pm

Arts & Culture

The music you’re hearing now is by Zodiac Death Valley. This San Francisco band calls themselves “the loudest folk band in the world.” You can judge for yourself on Saturday (02.18), when they take the stage at The Independent in San Francisco.

12:24pm

Arts & Culture

Berkeley-based musician and instrumentalist Tim Rayborn brings the werewolf to life in "Lycanthropos"

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Vampires and werewolves, the possessed and undead souls featured in the Twilightbooks and their stylish movie adaptations, may currently have teens transfixed, but the idea of these creatures walking among us dates back to at least ancient Greece. There the man-wolf was called Lycanthropos.